English books from Europe
Recommended English books (1861)
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If you speak English here are some English books from Europe for the next part of the "Read Around The World Challenge".
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GermanyDescription:
Dramatizes Galileo's conflict with the church over his assertion that the Earth revolves around the sun.
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Gallows Rock by Yrsa Sigurdardottir EN
IcelandDescription:
On a jagged, bleak lava field just outside Reykjavik stands the Gallows Rock. Once a place of execution, it is now a tourist attraction. Until this morning, when a man was found hanging from it... The nail embedded in his chest proves it wasn't suicide. But when the police go to his flat, a further puzzle awaits: a four-year-old boy has been left there. He doesn't seem to have any link with the victim, his parents cannot be found, and his drawings show he witnessed something terrible. As detective Huldar hunts the killer, and child psychologist Freyja looks for the boy's parents, the mystery u... continue
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Games with Greta : & Other Stories by Suzana Tratnik EN
SloveniaDescription:
A new collection of stories that has not appeared together before in any language.
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Garden by the Sea by Mercè Rodoreda EN
SpainDescription:
A Gatsby-esque novel about Spain in the 1920s on the eve of the Spanish Civil War
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Genius & Anxiety : How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947 by Norman Lebrecht EN
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
This lively chronicle of the years 1847–1947—the century when the Jewish people changed how we see the world—is “[a] thrilling and tragic history…especially good on the ironies and chain-reaction intimacies that make a people and a past” (The Wall Street Journal). In a hundred-year period, a handful of men and women changed the world. Many of them are well known—Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Kafka. Others have vanished from collective memory despite their enduring importance in our daily lives. Without Karl Landsteiner, for instance, there would be no blood transfusions or major surgery. Wit... continue
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Geography for the lost by Kapka kassabova EN
BulgariaDescription:
The voices speaking here - from a Roman housewife to a Chinese bar-owner in Berlin or an Argentine DJ - are the voices of the heart-sick, the culturally jet-lagged, people from photographs, the 'tenants' of lives, cities, and destinies.
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George Frideric Handel by Paul Henry Lang EN
HungaryDescription:
Exceptionally full, detailed study of the man, his music and times. Childhood, music training, years in London; analysis of Messiah and other works; much more. Introduction. Includes 35 illustrations.
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George Silverman's Explanation by Charles Dickens EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
"George Silverman's Explanation," published in instalments from January to March 1868, was one of the last pieces of fiction written by Charles Dickens, two years before his death. Silverman is born in a Preston cellar, and spends his early years locked in there, often left alone while his parents go out to seek work.
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George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
George's Grandma is a grizzly, grumpy, selfish old woman with pale brown teeth and a small puckered up mouth like a dog's bottom. Four times a day she takes a large spoonful of medicine, but it doesn't seem to do her any good. She's always just as poisonous after she's taken it as she was before. When George is left to look after her one morning, it's just the chance he needs . . .
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Georgia : Pawn in the New Political Game by Per Gahrton EN
SwedenDescription:
The 2008 Ossetia War underlined the fact that Georgia is caught in a political struggle between East and West. Per Gahrton analyzes American and Russian policy towards the country and provides a firsthand account of the Rose Revolution of 2003, its origin and aftermath. The book traces the increasing US involvement in Georgia and the Russian reaction of anger, sanctions and, eventually, invasion. Gahrton's analysis is based on interviews with key politicians and his experience as the rapporteur of the European Parliament on South Caucasus. At center stage is the growing opposition against auth... continue